BLANKET STATEMENTS WORKS BY GINA ADAMS, MARIA HUPFIELD & MARIE WATT

September 8 – October 27, 2018MINUS SPACE I16 Main Street, Suite AI Brooklyn, NY 11201
Opening: Saturday, September 8, 6­8pmPerformance by Gina Adams on September 8, 5pm (prior to opening)Please RVSP to info[at]accolagriefen[dot]com by September 1

Accola Griefen Fine Art and MINUS SPACE are pleased to present the three­ woman exhibition Blanket Statements: Works by Gina Adams, Maria Hupfield & Marie Watt. This is the first collaborative project by the galleries and it will take place at MINUS SPACE’s location in Dumbo, Brooklyn.

Artists Gina Adams, Maria Hupfield, and Marie Watt are of indigenous descent and fabric plays a significant role in their respective practices. No other blanket statements can be made, however, about the work of these three individuals. Each has a unique approach to her materials, as well as the confluence of tradition and innovation. Adams, Hupfield, and Watt make work that resists simplified interpretation.

Gina Adams draws upon cultural practices passed down from her ancestors, as well as a family history of forced assimilation. Her Broken Treaty Quilt Series consists of restructured antique quilts sewn with words from broken treaties between Native American tribes and the United States government. Similarly, Marie Watt’s work stems from history, biography, Iroquois proto-­feminism, and indigenous principles. Her large format works are commonly made in sewing circles, public events in which fellowship and storytelling can be as important as the resulting object. Felt is a favoured material of Maria Hupfield, “a maker, a mover, a connector, an Anishinaabe­kwe and a member of Wasauksing First Nation.” (Art in America, October 2017). Hupfield’s performance-based photographic works are disrupted by felt collages and address the issue of self- definition. The applied fabric acts as both as a shield and a screen, repelling consumption of the body and of nation, and resisting specificity and oversimplification.

In addition to the three artists on view in Blanket Statements, there will also be a selection of paintings and works on paper by renowned artist Jaune Quick-­to-­See Smith in the gallery’s viewing room.

ABOUT ACCOLA GRIEFEN FINE ART

Private dealers, Kristen Accola and Kat Griefen represent and offer works by important 20th and 21st Century American women artists and Native American women artists.

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